The Master Builder
Paperback, 104 pages ISBN: 9781848421066Publication Date:
9 Sep 2010
Size: 200mm x 132mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2010

The Master Builder

By Henrik Ibsen Adapted by David Edgar

Paperback £10.99£8.79

An enthralling version of an unforgettable Ibsen classic.

Part psychological thriller, part Gothic tragedy, Henrik Ibsen's late masterwork is a compelling portrait of one man's obsessive determination, and what might lie on the darker side of ambition.

Halvard Solness, the leading architect of his age, is at the end of his career. A single-minded man of angry pride, trapped in a frozen marriage to Aline, he is terrified of being eclipsed by the younger generation snapping at his heels.

A decade after their first meeting, the charismatic and bewitching young Hilde Wangel comes back into his life and inspires him to even greater heights. But will his last towering achievement renew him or destroy him?

This version of Ibsen's play The Master Builder, by David Edgar, was first staged at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2010.

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'David Edgar's new version of the text certainly makes you sit up and listen'

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'A taut new version by David Edgar, smartly underscored in ways that heighten the supernatural mood'

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'David Edgar's sinewy new version of the text is well served and well balanced'

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Paperback,104 pages ISBN: 9781848421066Publication Date:
9 Sep 2010
Size: 200mm x 132mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Henrik Ibsen:

Ghosts
John Gabriel Borkman
An Enemy of the People
A Doll's House
Emperor and Galilean
Nora : A Doll's House
Hedda
Peer Gynt
The Lady from the Sea
The Wild Duck
An Enemy of the People
The Master Builder
Ibsen: Three Plays
Judgement Day
Rosmersholm
Hedda Tesman
A Doll's House
Little Eyolf
Hedda Gabler
An Enemy of the People
John Gabriel Borkman
A Master Builder
Peer Gynt
Rosmersholm
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
The League of Youth
Ghosts
John Gabriel Borkman
The Lady From the Sea

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Also by David Edgar:

How Plays Work
Maydays & Trying It On: two plays
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Written on the Heart
Continental Divide: two plays
Edgar: Shorts
A Christmas Carol
Playing With Fire
Albert Speer
Maydays
The Shape of the Table
Arthur & George
Testing the Echo
Pentecost
Daughters of the Revolution
A Time to Keep
Trying It On
The Prisoner's Dilemma
Mothers Against
If Only

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